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If you are a Black person living in America, then this headline from Monday’s New York Times may be jarring, but not truly shocking: 1.5 Million…

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The “nice” guys are showing their true colors. A man in New York City punched and tossed a pregnant woman to the ground after he…

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New York’s City’s top cop went on a media blitz to deny that NYPD officers are singling out minorities in a crackdown on minor offenses.…

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The death toll has risen to seven in Wednesday’s gas explosion that rocked a New York City neighborhood. One of the victims – who lived…

Today, April 6, Billy Dee Williams turns 76 years-old. Mr. Williams is best known for portraying smooth dishonest, Lando Calrissian in two “Star Wars” movies.  He’s an actor, artist, singer and writer.  Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta Anne, a West-Indian born elevator operator. He first appeared on […]

Via Elev8.com Five years after revealing that she had started to study Scientology, Katie Holmes has officially returned to the Catholic faith, registering as a parishioner at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York City. Read full story here.

Hunts Point, an isolated and poor neighborhood in New York City’s borough of The Bronx, hosts the largest marketplace for fresh produce, meat, and fish in the northeastern United States. Huge trucks come and go at all hours of the day and night, carrying food to supermarket chains and the region’s finest restaurants. RELATED: America’s […]

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of New York City police officers who claim that they’ve been barred from receiving promotions to the department’s Intelligence Division because they’re black. SEE ALSO: Wikipedia Goes Dark For 24 Hours The black officers allege that there is a “secret […]

A New York man killed himself exactly 27 years to the day that he and his friends were shot by a man on a Subway train. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist

A New York City hedge fund manager will pay for the funeral of the Brooklyn woman who was set on fire and killed in her building’s elevator last week. SEE ALSO: The 9-to-5 Workday About To Be Gone? Darren Weingrow did not know the deceased grandmother, Delores Gillespie, but decided to donate after hearing her […]